Spencer Jones

The Seam

Six-Foot-Seven of Maybe — Three call-ups, three demotions, and not one of them about anything Spencer Jones did. He hits a baseball harder than anyone at his level and touches it less than almost anyone in the majors. July 25, 2026

The card rack

FlagshipSpencer Jones #PA-SJ · 2024 Bowman Sterling Prospect Autograph · 185 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$60.00Raw$89.00PSA 9$143PSA 10$185BGS 10PSA 10 · 46 nights

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The rookieSpencer Jones #BCP-178 · 2023 Bowman Chrome Prospects Sapphire · 105 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$7.25Raw$19.13PSA 9$80.00PSA 10$104BGS 10PSA 10 · 46 nights

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Scout’s note

At 112.56 EV95, Spencer Jones sits in the 99th percentile of our 439 AAA bats, median 105.0, and on the MLB value grid his contact grades at 0.60. The tools are ahead of the market — that is what pre-consensus means. A 6-foot-7 lefty out of Encinitas, CA, taken by the Yankees in the first round in 2022, he debuted this May: 53 games, .212 average, 5 home runs, 61 strikeouts. The board holds him because the whiffs are a gap the tools can outgrow.

Current signals

The read: Jones's EV95 of 112.6 sits in the 99th percentile of the 453 AAA bats we track (median 105.0), and on the MLB value grid his contact grades at 0.60. The tools are ahead of the market — that's what pre-consensus means.

EV95 (mph)

112.56

xVal (MLB grid)

0.5987

Balls in play

123

Age

25

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of August 3, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.48Mest

Tax hit

$0.48M

Service time

0 yr 0 d

Options left

3 / 3

Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, New York Yankees.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of August 20, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$0.78M

Guaranteed

$0.78M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-Arb

The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.

Collect Spencer Jones

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